Crenshaw County AlArchives Biographies.....Quillian, Thomas L. 1830 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
DR. THOMAS L. QUILLIAN, physician and surgeon, of Honoraville, was born in
Habersham county, Ga., in 1830. He is a son of Henry K. and Aley (Hancock)
Quillian, the former a native of Franklin county, Ga., born in 1808, and the
latter born in North Carolina in 1805. When a girl Mrs. Quillian came with her
parents to Habersham county, Ga., where she was raised and married. Both she and
her husband received a common school education, and when Dr. T. L. Quillian was
twelve years old they removed to Macon county, Ala., and still later to Auburn,
where Mr. Quillian died in December, 1873. The subject's mother had died in
1853. Both of these people were members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He
was a tanner and shoe manufacturer many years at Auburn and at Society Hill. He
was postmaster at Auburn some years, was for a short time a justice of the
peace, and was the first sheriff of Gilmer county, Ga. He was a Mason a good
many years, and was a liberal supporter of all public enterprises. He was a whig
until the war came on, but was never a politician. He was one of a family of six
sons and two daughters, he being the oldest. Their father, Clemonds Quillian,
was probably a Virginian, but spent the greater part of his life in Whitfield
county, Ga. He was a farmer, and was at one time tax collector of Murray and
also of Whitfield county, Ga. For a good many years he represented Gilmer
county, Ga., in the legislature. He was of Scotch parentage, and was probably of
the first generation born in this country. The maternal grandfather of our
subject, William Hancock, removed from North Carolina to Georgia when Mrs.
Quillian was an infant, and died in Habersham county, as also did his wife. Dr.
Quillian was the youngest of a family of two sons and one daughter, viz.:
Parmelia A., deceased wife of W. K. Jones, and William Clemonds, who was a
harnessmaker by trade, and was in the late war with Bragg and died in northern
Alabama in 1874. Thomas L. was raised partly on the farm and partly in the shop
with his father. He was principally educated at Auburn and at Dahlonega, Ga.,
receiving a good academic education, and then read medicine with Dr. James E.
Ellison, of Macon county, Ala., and in 1854 graduated from the Augusta Medical
college and practiced in Hamilton county, Tenn., one year. He then went to
Dalton, Ga., and in 1856 came to what is now Crenshaw county, Ala., five miles
northwest of where Rutledge is situated, and has since then practiced in this
vicinity. He has lived for twenty-five years on the present farm, ten miles
northwest of Rutledge. He is one of the oldest physicians of the county, and one
of its most prominent planters. He owns 353 acres of fine land. He was married
in 1860 to Sarah A. Bozeman, who was born in Lowndes county, Ala., and who was a
daughter of Eldred and Jane Bozeman, who came from Georgia to Alabama at an
early day. Mr. Bozeman died in what is now Crenshaw county very suddenly while
attending church. He was a resident of Butler county at the time. Dr. Quillian
had three children by his first wife. They were Mary Beulah, wife of E. J.
Pollard; Henry Etheldred, of Montgomery; Frances Clements, wife of W. H. Dry, of
Butler county. In 1881 the doctor married Sarah W., daughter of James and Mary
Daniel, a cousin of his first wife, who was born in Lowndes county. In January,
1862, the doctor joined company I, First Alabama cavalry (Clanton's), and
operated in north Alabama and Mississippi, fighting at Shiloh and in minor
engagements in that part of the country, but on June 7, 1862, at Saltillo,
Miss., he was discharged on account of ill health. Since that time he has been
continuously engaged in the practice of medicine. He is a prominent member of
the Crenshaw county Medical society. He is a member of Camp Creek lodge, No.
251, F. & A. M., having been a member since 1864, and secretary many years. He
was worshipful master several times. He has been a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church, south, for a good many years, while his wife is a member of
the Primitive Baptist church. Both stand high in social esteem, and strive to
advance the community in all religious and educational matters to the extent of
their ability.
Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 791-792
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI
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